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Carbon tax wrangling center stage at Canada climate change talks
2016-03-04 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Strains over stalled Canadian oil pipeline projects and Ottawa's push to impose a national carbon price hung over talks on Thursday between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the country's 10 provinces on how to tackle global warming. Trudeau's Liberal Party won an election last October on a pledge to do much more than the previous administration to curb emissions of greenhouse gases, which are climbing as firms exploit Canada's vast crude-rich oil sands. Behind the scenes, Trudeau officials have...
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BC Carbon Tax Works
2016-03-02 21:18:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Program to Fight Climate Change Wins Support Canadian tool against greenhouse gasses may work for America. read more
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Carbon tax is best climate change solution
2016-02-20 09:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Spokesman Review: Washingtonians have a historic opportunity to act on the issue of our time climate change. A groundswell of citizen support has put in front of legislators Initiative 732, a revenue neutral carbon tax that will leave our children and future generations a cleaner, healthier and safer world. It demonstrates what a pro-business and pro-environment approach to climate change can accomplish. But we must work together, and we must act now. This initiative is a great first step toward taking action on...
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A carbon tax Jerry Brown thinks could have potential
2016-02-17 10:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sacramento Bee: Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday said a tax on carbon dioxide emissions has potential and suggested he was open to the idea. The Democratic governor, a fiscal moderate but longtime champion of environmental causes, noted support among some conservatives for a revenue-neutral carbon tax, in which proceeds are not held by the government. Former secretary of treasury and former secretary of state (George) Shultz and Arthur Laffer, the Reagan adviser on supply-side economics, have both strongly endorsed...
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UK-wide carbon tax would have 'little impact' on consumers, study finds
2016-01-11 12:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A modest uniform carbon tax of 20 a tonne would have a negligible impact on consumer prices, according to a new study that attempts to make the case for wider adoption of carbon pricing policies. The study from the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and the ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy at London School of Economics and Political Science argues that applying the tax to all fuels would increase UK consumer prices by up to just 0.9 per cent,...
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